Our third Cross-cultural c19th Century Research Centre seminar of the semester is TOMORROW at 1pm in QUAD/UNITED COLLEGE 31., with DR GREG KERR (Glasgow): ‘Print, type and utopian thought in nineteenth-century France: writing at the margins’!
Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere, edited by Nsah Mala and Nicki Hitchcott, is highlighted by @unesco-bridges.bsky.social as part of its publications spotlight.
Discover more about the book ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836243144
18 March 1:15pm at Younger Hall, Stewart Room, we invite our students to the talk by Chih-Hua Ding, Director General of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK, Language as a tool, diplomacy as a system: Rethinking career pathways for our graduates: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/langu...
Cultural Identity&Memory Studies Institute's next Brown Bag Talk will be held by Lydia Maria Roth (School of IR), 11 March 2pm, UCO: 30: “We created a new memory culture”: Remembering the victims of right-wing terror in Hanau. Details here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/brown...
Find the information about the upcoming Employability Event for our students on 11 March 4-6pm. This event has been convened by the Student Representative for Employability and Careers, and the Employability Officer. All staff are welcome to attend!
Please click below for a LinkedIn post with the Call for Papers for the online conference I am organising with @nickihitchcott.bsky.social and Alice Karekezi on 'Belgium's Colonial Métis: Histories and Legacies'. It will take place on Friday 15 May 2026.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Dr Eleni Kefala's Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship project “Deserts of Modernity: Nature and History in 19th-Century Pampa and Patagonia” is featured as the cover article in the latest Leverhulme Trust Newsletter (Feb 2026)–more on the project on p. 8: www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
Dame Anne Pringle, educated at St Andrews where she gained an MA Hons in French and German in 1977, has been elected to serve as the new Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. Read more here: news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/dame...
Delighted that our new Chancellor @uniofstandrews.bsky.social is not only the first woman Chancellor but also a graduate of #French and #German from our School @sta-modlangs.bsky.social news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/dame...
Dame Anne Pringle is also a graduate of #French and #German from @sta-modlangs.bsky.social
Read the interview (in Arabic) with our PhD student Natheir Malkaw in Jadaliyya about his short story collection ʻIyādat al-Adab al-Radīʼ - عيادة الأدب الرديء (The Clinic for inferior literature): www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4709...
TOMORROW Wed 18 Feb at 1pm in QUAD/UNITED COLLEGE 31 join DR NIALL SREENAN (Comparative Literature) for his seminar: ‘Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel’!
Read about the exciting workshop on Reenacting Women’s Lives - Queer Acting and Creation Workshop
here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...
Read about the celebration of Lunar New Year in our school: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...
Claire Whitehead's new episode of the ‘Lost Detectives’ podcast series with Maitrayee Roychoudhury, Assistant Prof at the Uni of Delhi & PhD student in @standrewsenglish.bsky.social at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, here: lostdetectives.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/podcasts/ or: soundcloud.com/university-o...
18 Feb 1pm in UCO:30 join the Cultural Identity&Memory Studies Institute for Brown Bag Talk: Memory Crafted in Glass&Stone, The Polish Soldiers' Mosaic in St Andrews as a Material Representation of Collective&Mediated Memory with Kamila Oles: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/brown...
Join 'How did We Get Here? Understanding Iran's January 2026 Protests' Seminar
Time and Venue: 16.00- 17.30, Wed 18 Feb in School V
Speakers: Prof. Ali Ansari, Dr Randjbar-Daemi, Dr Talajooy
For video links and more info: Please contact Hannah Hassani (hh231)
All Welcome
St Andrews is 35th in the Arts & Humanities World University Rankings 2026 published by Times Higher. Featuring over 800 universities from 74 countries, the ranking includes Modern Languages, Art History, Classics, English, History, Philosophy, & Divinity: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...
An exciting workshop soon, focused on performing arts & creative skills, developed by Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos with our students, Ciara Rooney & Emily Hadfield. Open to everyone in our Uni (18+) but with limited spaces. Slide for more details & make sure you secure your spot!
Wed 11 Feb 7:30pm don't miss Prof Will Fowler's public lecture on 'Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico (1864-67): Hero or villain?' to the Perthshire Society of Natural Science in the Soutar Theatre at the AK Bell Library, 17 York Place, Perth PH2 8EP www.psns.org.uk/archaeologic...
#LanguagesWeekScotland #Scotlandloveslanguages
Wed 25 Feb 12-3pm in Old Burgh School join the workshop, Critical Games: Back to life: play, risk&the self in academic writing, for PhD researchers in humanities&social sciences, led by Dr Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL), with our Dr Niall Sreenan. Sign up here: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/criti...
Wed 18 Feb 1pm in United College, UCO:30, join us for Brown Bag Talk: Memory Crafted in Glass and Stone
The Polish Soldiers' Mosaic in St Andrews as a Material Representation of Collective and Mediated Memory with Dr Kamila Oles. Deatils here events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/brown...
Our PhD student Katherine Stratton has successfully defended her thesis: Dexterous Destriers: The Literal and Figurative Horse as Educator in Early Modern France, 1500-1625. Heartiest congratulations to Katherine & her supervisors, Drs Emma Herdman & Claudia Rossignoli! 🎉🎉🎉
Tue 17 Feb 2pm to 3.30pm, Lower College Hall, St Salvator's Quad, Masters Degree Academic Fair, for our undegrads, who are thinking about what to do after graduation. Come along to the postgrad taught Academic Fair to learn about our Masters programmes: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...
Join us to remember men, women & children killed in recent weeks during anti-government protests in Iran. A vigil, organised by colleagues in the Schools of History and Modern Languages, will be held in the Buchanan Lecture Theatre on Wed 11 Feb from 4pm: intheloop.newsweaver.com/intheloop/1h...
Read In the Loop about our Dr Eleni Kefala's Double poetry win: intheloop.newsweaver.com/intheloop/ox...
Fri 6 Feb 6pm in School 3, St Salvator's Quad, please join Dr Paul Flaig from the Department of Film Studies for a special free screening of G W Pabst's silent masterpiece of 1929, Pandora's Box, starring the iconic Louise Brooks: events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/scree...
Join us in congratulating our Dr Tom Smith who has been awarded a Leibniz Summer Fellowship at the Leibniz Zentrum für zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam for his project on Queer Turkish-German creativity around Berlin’s clubs in the 1990s.🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to our PhD student, Tilly Lyons, who has been awarded the 2025 Society for Italian Studies' EDI Excellence Award for her workshop series 'Cross-Campus Conversations', which facilitated interdisciplinary dialogues on race and racialisation. 🎉🎉🎉
